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www.johndenver.com will tell you all you need to know. He was a cheesy guy who wrote and played cheesy songs for cheesy people.
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I really like that French band Air. This intrigues me, and I want to look into more French pop. Many of the artists I like say they were influenced by Serge Gainsbourg.
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I'm glad you're smart enough to realize most of this thread was in fun and most of the barbs were directed at other posters rather than France. Tell me, has France had to face the largest Evil the world has ever known ....WalMart?
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08-10-2005, 12:08 AM | #113 |
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Because of the amount of respect that I have garnered here over the years, I probably should not mention things like wearing out a copy of Rhymes and Reasons, and enjoying some of his sappier tunes ... yes, even that one.
They are all very singable.
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really really wonderful songs, I hope you can find them French people love him because he was a bad boy always drunk, provocative but very sensitive. He wrote also songs for Jane Birkin (English girl only famous in France ?) and Birgitte Bardot (when she was young !). He was quite ugly but always seduced the most beautiful and famous women. His lyrics are often based on play on words and poetry. His music is very rich, a lot of different styles. I think his last songs were “easier”. Most famous Songs : “Initials BB”, “Je t’aime moi non plus“ (with sexual whisper melt in the music), “Ballade de Melody Nelson”, “Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais”, “la javanaise“… Famous also in having said, in a TV French show where Witney Houston was the guest star, that he "wanted to fuck her". She became white for few seconds : What !!!!! From the 60’s to 80’s there were always in France about the same 20 singers. And French were inhibited compared to US and British music, trying to copy. It wasn’t so good and almost forgot to sing like they before used to. Now French music is influenced by anglo saxon pop, soul, techno, African, Arabian and Spanish rythm and the French touch… : the result is good. Since nearly 2000 we've really got plenty of good singers : about 5 to 10 new per year, for us it’s an explosion, in every kind of style. Exemples : Juliette (French style, humour), Manu Chao (world music, latino), Souad Massi (Algerian, pop, rai, flamenco), Thomas Fersen (French style), Yann Tiersen (music from the film “Amélie from Montmartre”), Lo Jo (world music), Camille (sounds like Bjork), Tiken Jah Fakoli (Coast of Ivory ? african political reggae), Lhasa (French/Spanish/English jazz/world music), Pink Martini (French/US jazz latino), St Germain (album “Tourist”, jazz techno, no lyrics)… Less recent : Mano Negra (Rock latino), Noir Désir (French pop Rock), Rita mitSouko (French pop rock), Etienne Daho (French pop), I Muvrini (traditional band from Corsica), Renaud (beautiful lyrics, awful voice, made a song against “Miss Maggie”), Bernard Lavilliers (our Bruce Springsteen in spirit with latino-American influences), Laurent Voulzy (album “caché derrière” and others, good pop), Alain Souchon (beautiful lyrics, good pop), Francis Cabrel (soothing French pop Rock ), William Sheller (pop classic, piano), Mylène Farmer (pop quite original and successful), Enzo Enzo (French style), Zazie (pop), Michel Jonasz (Jazz), Claude Nougaro (Jazz + song “Toulouse” !), Jean Jacques Goldman (our national song maker, cautious humanist, the man French people would like to meet once, pop rock), songs of Starmania (“Tycoon”), Air, Daft Punk …… If you like Serge Gainsbourg’s music, maybe you’ll enjoy “M“ (Matthieu Chedid), Dominique A, Alain Bashung, in a more modern way… and MC Solaar (pop rap) Our French star : Johnny Hallyday (I think he isn’t original for US people) Our French god : Charles Aznavour, we can’t say anything bad about this man. Respect. You can find them on the web. (emule, kasaa, (un)official sites) Lyrics French songs : http://www.paroles.net/ And French singers with number of songs : clic “La Liste Complète des Interprètes“ : http://www.paroles.net/artis/* Quote:
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Thanks for the information!
Many of us admire that film, which is just called Amélie here. Or even Amelie, without the correct accent. |
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Wal-Mart is a chain of warehouse-like stores that sells everything from tires to lettuce to DVDs to rifles. It's cheap, soulless, mass-produced crap, marketed to cheap, soulless, mass-produced people. When a Wal-Mart comes to town, the effect on family-owned businesses is similar to nuclear detonation, only slower. I loathe Wal-Mart, and shop there every week. I'm pretty sure the mark of the Beast will be that stupid smiley face on the commercials.
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I like the writer, Collette, too. She was a liberated gal long before the word "feminist" had ever been coined. I read everything of hers I could find. She wrote about LIFE and the wonderful way she lived it outside the bonds of the conventions of her times! I wish the French wouldn't have given us all those existentialists like Sartre and Camus - very depressing. French perfume is wonderful, though. Shalimar! If you ever see a Walmart start to go up in France, blow it up and put the blame on Bin Laden! |
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08-10-2005, 01:41 PM | #119 |
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marichiko said "People ignorant of European history (that means 99.9999999% of all Americans) find it easy to make arrogant assumptions."
That was so funny, milk came out my nose!
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you'll find the humor wears off shortly.
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